A federal appeals court in Boston heard arguments in a closely watched dispute over whether a district judge had the authority to order the restoration of more than $2.6 billion in research funding to Harvard after the Trump administration cut it off. The case places two recurring legal questions in sharp relief: how far the executive branch can go in…
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I was at a managing partners conferance recently and every managing partner had the same complaint: they can’t find lawyers, and they can’t keep the ones they have. t made me think of a recent 8am study that showed too many legal prefesionals are made miserable by admin work demands. It occured to me that a lot of small firms are…
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A federal judge’s approval of Paramount’s settlement with a coalition of states removes a major litigation obstacle to the company’s proposed transaction with Warner, clearing the way for one of the largest media deals in recent years to move toward closing. The ruling, entered by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, is notable not only for its immediate effect on the…
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For thirty years, the web was built for eyeballs: human fingers tapping credit card numbers into static forms, clicking ‘I am not a robot,’ and waiting for a bank to approve thirty bucks. But that web just slipped into the minority. Today, over 57% of all internet traffic isn’t human—it’s autonomous AI agents scraping, computing, and negotiating in milliseconds. The…
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iManage’s next generation platform went into GA in October, following a successful early access program with law firms, corporate legal teams and financial institutions. In this Legal IT Insider product […]
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Sarah Walker-Smith has been removed from her position as CEO of Ampa Group and “expelled” from the ‘house of brands’ following an independent investigation that began after a complaint was […]
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In this seminal report from Legal IT Insider, our lead analyst Neil Cameron looks at how the security foundations of the law firm are being rewritten, as AI becomes embedded […]
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A federal judge’s decision invalidating President Donald Trump’s removal of the court-appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle is continuing to ripple through the legal industry, not just because it affects a high-profile Justice Department post, but because it tees up a deeper constitutional dispute over who controls interim federal prosecutors.

The underlying case, Rogoff v. Trump et al, centers on…
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The Justice Department has announced a settlement resolving an employment-discrimination matter involving a Texas memory-care facility and a National Guard medic, underscoring the federal government’s continued willingness to enforce workplace protections for servicemembers. Although the matter was resolved short of a contested court ruling, the settlement is a useful reminder that the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s October 1, 2026 order in IPR2025-01250 grants the Patent Owner’s motions to seal, reinforcing a familiar but important PTAB principle: while Board proceedings are presumptively public, targeted protection remains available for genuinely confidential business information.

Although this order is procedural rather than merits-based, it matters because sealing disputes often shape how parties present technical…
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